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Threads joins X in blocking posts to apparently leaked documents about JD Vance
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These zios wants trump to win because he's even more genocidal than the current dude.
Interesting how documents from democratic campaigns are fair game. Even dick pics of the president's son are fair game. But when it comes to Republicans Suddenly It's all off limits. Strange.
More predictable than interesting.
They have a rule in the House specifically to prevent anyone out talking disparagingly about the Cheeto Mussolini. Well former Presidents I believe, but the point stands.
I believe the former is the reason for the policy affecting the latter.
In a rational world? Perhaps. But if this were a rational world and that were actually the reason. They would have done it after the Clinton campaign leaked documents. Or 30 times before that. So I highly suspect that isn't the case. It's that it's impacting the people they want to win personally. Therefore it must be censored. And for all the many faults Democrats have. They're not being hypocritical on this point at least. The Biden campaign was contacted with this information previously but didn't publish it or run with it. Not like any Republican or specifically Trump officials would have.
Similarly in 2000, Gore campaign reported a leak from the Bush campaign to the FBI.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
There you go, in case you were wondering.
I read the first few sections and it's not that interesting
That's because all this was public knowledge before! So, why do they block it?
It's about one of the most disliked VP candidates in US history, a dude that wears eyeliner (I guess), doesn't know how many eggs are in a dozen, and is almost as bland as the last tRump VP pick! You don't even need to read a couple sentences to know that!! ( ˘ ³˘)
Yeah, but bland as the last one was, can you imagine Vance doing the right thing and certifying the election after the shit show on Jan 6th?
I may not be a Pence fan, but he earned a ton of respect from me that day.
Right, he was shit all other times in his political carrier. But that one time, he did his duty, despite the threats.
The noteworthy items in that dossier make me wonder what kind of decisions they made while picking Vance. I initially assumed it was because he was a project 2025 groupie, but given that the dossier highlighted his anti-Ukraine stance, maybe project 2025 was just a nussance worth putting up with.
The stupidest part is that there's nothing in that dossier that isn't already public information.
Public knowledge vs. common knowledge. They want to prevent it from being the latter.
Let me guess, it's about...leather-upholstered furniture?
If only it were that interesting. It's literally all the things we already knew about Vance that made him a liability even though Trump picked him anyway.
Has it ever been confirmed that he only identifies as being attracted to leather couches? I was of the impression he didn’t have a particular type, but I could be wrong.
Threads doesn't really have a track record when it comes to things like this, so I don't blame them for enforcing their terms and conditions. The difference here is that Twitter has allowed such things to be posted time and time again but won't allow it in this specific case. It's selective enforcement.
Maybe Threads doesn't, what about Meta?
I'm not too sure, maybe this is Zucks first pivot after that warning from Trump.